{"product_id":"2940170438174","title":"Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade. With the expert guidance of former executive editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Jill Abramson, we follow two legacy (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) and two upstart (\u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVICE\u003c\/i\u003e) companies as they plow through a revolution in technology, economics, standards, commitment, and endurance that pits old vs new media.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMerchants of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e is the groundbreaking and gripping story of the precarious state of the news business told by one of our most eminent journalists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJill Abramson follows four companies: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e, and Vice Media over a decade of disruption and radical adjustment. The new digital reality nearly kills two venerable newspapers with an aging readership while creating two media behemoths with a ballooning and fickle audience of millennials. We get to know the defenders of the legacy presses as well as the outsized characters who are creating the new speed-driven media competitors. The players include Jeff Bezos and Marty Baron (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e), Arthur Sulzberger and Dean Baquet (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), Jonah Peretti (BuzzFeed), and Shane Smith (\u003ci\u003eVICE\u003c\/i\u003e) as well as their reporters and anxious readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMerchants of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e raises crucial questions that concern the well-being of our society. We are facing a crisis in trust that threatens the free press. Abramson¿s audiobook points us to the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117373276400,"sku":"2940170438174","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170438174_p0.jpg?v=1763803677","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170438174","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}